Computational Vision and Bio-Inspired Computing: Proceedings of ICCVBIC 2021: 1420 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1420) - Tapa blanda

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001 and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). João Tavares is Co-Editor of more than 60 books, Co-Author of more than 50 book chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been Committee Member of several international and national journals and conferences, is Co-Founder and Co-Editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering” published by Taylor & Francis and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental. Additionally, he has been (Co-)Supervisor of several M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis and Supervisor of several post-doc projects and has participated in many scientific projects both as Researcher and as Scientific Coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human–computer interaction and new product development.

Dr. Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor at “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She is Author of more than 300 research papers. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control and soft computing. She is Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to IJCSE. Dr. Balas is Member of EUSFLAT, ACM and a SM IEEE, Member in TC – EC and TC-FS (IEEE CIS), TC – SC (IEEE SMCS) and Joint Secretary FIM.